Geologyhound

Thanks! That’s certainly more interesting than a screwdriver handle! Looks like the kind with the hex head like I found was for the wire wheels.

I went out to a “new to me site” over the weekend and found a bit of an eclectic mixture of items. All these years of hunting and I have never found a silver quarter outside of a seeded hunt. So I am very pleased with the 47 Washington. This place apparently gets brush hogged occasionally and some of the items show it. The chewed-up Fangburger token is from Burger Chef restaurants perhaps around the 1970s. I would guess the fly fishing reel and the tape measure are more recent. The tootsie toy wrecker may date from pre-World War II. No idea about the screwdriver handle other than it is aluminum. The penny is a 1919 S. Had my heart skip a beat before I gently cleaned around the date because it looked like a 1909S… 😕 However, the two items I am most interested in are the dome shaped thing and the piece I first mistook for pipe and dropped in my “Possibly not trash” pouch. This item appears to be lead inside a brass sheath. The lead appears to have rings on it like a Civil War bullet. The site is along General Morgan’s trail from the Civil War (with union troops on his tail). I know most of the Civil War bullets did not have metal casings but I understand Spencer and Henry rifles did. This appears to be half inch in diameter and what’s left of it is about 3/4 inch long. Could this be a remnant of a Civil War bullet still in the casing? Does anyone know what the spacing between the rings should be if this is Civil War era? The other item which has aroused my curiosity is the brass dome shaped thing. It’s a little bent out of whack, but it’s about 2 inches in diameter or a little under and about 1.5 inches tall. There are slits irregularly spaced in the base. Some of them are a little ragged which makes me think it just broke. Others seem to be relatively straight. The base has a small flange like the dome was made to fit over the top of something. This makes sense, as there is iron rust (magnetic) attached to the base. I am guessing maybe some sort of hubcap cover, but the thought dancing around the back of my head is could this be the nose piece of an artillery round? Would any Civil War artillery have a brass sheath over the nose? Would any Civil War artillery shell even be shaped that way? Any help from Civil War munitions buffs would be greatly appreciated for either of these items. Thank you in advance!

I was going through my “not obvious trash but not obvious treasure“ pouch and pulled out both of these. After a little cleaning, I can tell the item on the left is a lamp wick holder. It says EF Jones patent May 4–55 Reissued Jan 11 59. The first year may actually be a 57. According to the Internet, that matches with the EF Jones January 11, 1859 patent. The place where I found it has a small museum. I plan to take it back to them and see if they want it. The second item I really have no clue about. The end of the main wire not connected to the circular object has small wire wrapped around it – possibly part of a spring. My first thought from the shape was some sort of suspender clip but since the wire is not connected on both sides that can’t be. Since the central object is brass it can’t be some sort of a sparker. I also considered some part of a doorbell, but this has me stumped. 🤔 Any ideas? Thanks!

Oh how I wish!😁

Thank you, and you too! My mom and dad handed down the plates when they got a new set. There are fewer now than there used to be…

I’ll have to remember that one. 😄

Unfortunately not. It appears to be a small emblem off of a Sterling truck. That company was in business from the late 90s to the early 2000s. FYI, the unidentifiable mass next to the rimfire casing appears to be an old bullet, or at least a lead mass.

Now why oh why couldn’t it have been American? The color gave me a start for a second. Definitely not the standard run-of-the-mill US clad corrosion…

Thanks, I would like to see that!

What a day! Looks like you almost recovered the full concertina…

Thanks! This thing is probably somewhat removed from its point of origin. The location where I found it has been in continuous use since the late 1800s and has never produced armaments or defense equipment of any sort. It has never been a factory.

It says FFA above the plow and owl. The Future Farmers of America was founded in 1928. Almost every pin I found online also had an eagle perched on top. I only found one without the eagle like yours. That seller at Worthpoint thought it might be a greenhorn pin.

That is one cool badge! Days like that really whet your whistle for more. What is the little button/pin on the right side of the picture below the rings? I can see there is some sort of pattern on it but I can’t make out what.

Ah, so you think this might’ve been on a crate of munitions rather than a piece of equipment?

I have been digging zinc pennies at this site because I have found several IHPs, and was rewarded with another IHP - 1888. I certainly took a close look at the last eight. Unfortunately I can’t see any trace of a 7 under it. So it is not one of the valuable error coins from that year. ☹️ However, I find the Defense Plant Corp. tag to be rather interesting. The Defense Plant Corp. was a US government corporation from 1940 to 1945 basically in charge of funding war time factories. I wish there was some way of looking up the serial number on the tag to see on what kind of equipment it used to be mounted. Anyone have any ideas on that subject?

Thanks! Good to know there are some multi charger options and I don’t have to stick with the original base.

Thank you!!

I purchased my D2 about a year ago and have just left the charge mains and USB base either plugged into the wall or next to that outlet. I went to charge my detector the other day and found one of my family members had taken the USB base! I vaguely recall the original instructions mentioning all of the markings which needed to be on a proper base to charge XP equipment. So I have always considered the original base as dedicated for my detector. Problem is I never paid attention to it after I got it so I don’t remember what it looked like. Could somebody please post a picture of what their charging base looks like? Also does anyone know whether a standard USB plug-in will work for a charger base for XP equipment? I have attached a picture of the only loose unknown base I have found. I don’t remember it being white and it doesn’t look like the pictures on the XP website. But, I don’t know if all the units are shipped with the black base shown on the XP website. I am just afraid of frying my equipment if I use the wrong charger. So any help is greatly appreciated!

Looks convex on one side and concave on the other. The concave side is a different color and cracked like a residue of some sort might still be on it. Could it be a lid for a small jar or vial? Was there any glass, ceramic or other possible container indications when you dug it?

Looks like yours is the large eight version? Still worth about $1421 in G4 condition (if it were complete and intact ☹️). A great find nonetheless! Maybe it’s sister is hiding out there somewhere…

You sure have found some nice spots to detect!

Nice! I’m glad the legible side has the date. It almost looks like the backside got sheared off rather than worn off. Is it overly thin?

Last metal detecting club meeting someone entered a find in the find the month which was a working (?) 1800’s miniature toy cannon about the diameter of a pencil on a hinged mount something like what you have. Now I wish I’d had more time to take a closer look at it.

The little tiny milky crystals may be drusy quartz.

Thanks! At 8 ounces it has a completely different heft than any of the cap pistols I have found or owned. Do you happen to know the primary metal used in the Kilgore line? The other cap pistols I have found basically peeled chrome back and the aluminum or tin or whatever underneath rotted away into white powder which left the cap pistols in multiple pieces. This is weakly magnetic all over and is definitely rusting.